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BLACK PILLS, which features the Ronald Hugh Morrieson literary award winning short 'Hugo Garrett's Exemplary Mowing Technique' is ➡️ OUT NOW ⬇️ https://linktr.ee/passtheamyl

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💊 Jones @passtheamyl.bsky.social · Apr 1

💊 OUT NOW - featuring the Ronald Hugh Morrison Literary Award winning short ‘Hugo Garrett’s Exemplary Mowing Technique’ and featuring a foreword by Queensland Literary Award winner @steveminon!

Don’t listen to me, listen to @horrornonna.com there in the video!

GET: linktr.ee/passtheamyl

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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 6h

Spotted in Oakland

Wrong Way street sign with a crossed-out swastika

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Michael Edison Hayden @michaelehayden.bsky.social · 9h

“They are highly organized … [they] have purchased their own animal costumes”

Andy ngo mad about muppets again — this time in Chicago

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bort @crushbort.bsky.social · 1d

can you imagine just sitting down to plan this and not feeling any shame or hesitation. seeing jane goodall on the tv as you’re doing it and how her thing was gorillas and yours is getting ready to deport a guy who’s been wrongly imprisoned since reagan’s first term

Lynn Becker @cmgiulini.bsky.social · 1d

After spending 43 years in prison for a crime he didn't commit, evidence hidden by the prosecution reversed his conviction. Rather than finally enjoying freedom, ICE abducted him for deportation

Depraved.

www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

He was wrongfully imprisoned for 43 years. Moments after being released, ICE took him

Subramanyam “Subu” Vedam now faces deportation.

www.miamiherald.com

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💊 Jones @passtheamyl.bsky.social · 1d

All the hits from the back row of my year nine English class:

"For the following three hours, there were jokes from various comedians about the Holocaust, pedophilia, and New York’s homeless population.”

Clowns.

The Baffler @thebaffler.com · 1d

After scandalizing the left as an opener for Donald Trump at a rally last year, Tony Hinchecliffe has ascended to the top of right-wing comedy with his purposely offensive Gong Show redux, “Kill Tony,” whose Netflix special sold out Madison Square Garden.

Who’s Laughing Now | Adam Wilson

Must we concede to broadband sanction of all comedic material, no matter how repulsive we find it?

thebaffler.com

💊 Jones @passtheamyl.bsky.social · 1d

It’s Steel Panther. Quite the needle drop.

💊 Jones @passtheamyl.bsky.social · 1d

Short fiction (and more!) now upon ye olde “blog”, just like it’s 2007. #booksky

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THE PUB WITH NO BLOKES - short fiction — GARTH JONES/ RONALD HUGH MORRIESON LITERARY AWARD WINNER 2024

“– Revenant had supped of the Shaman’s elixirs Yet still its condition was rabid dire Returned as it did from Wasteland to Bolthole A journey marked by shit and eldritch fi-iy-yire Upon the coach ...

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💊 Jones @passtheamyl.bsky.social · 4d

Back on the @justinhamilton11.bsky.social Podcast digging into PTA’s latest banger, ‘One Battle After Another’.

So good I rated it five stars on @letterboxd.social twice!

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Gizem Karaali 🧿 @gizem-karaali.bsky.social · 2d

An ode to the written word.

David Milner @davemilbo.bsky.social · 3d

Here's a great Shot debut from David Rayfield. "Writing has nothing to fear from AI – just from those who support it"

Writing has nothing to fear from AI - just from those who support it - The Shot

“We’re seeing a year-on-year decline on text,” said Facebook VP for Europe, Middle East and Africa, Nicola Mendelsohn, in a...

theshot.net.au

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💊 Jones @passtheamyl.bsky.social · 2d

Share your favourite black and white movie.

#filmsky

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💊 Jones @passtheamyl.bsky.social · 2d

I remember it as a dodgy looking VHS trailer as a kid and dismissed it out of hand. It was Chapo’s recent Movie Mindset episode that convinced me to give it a go, and it’s an all-points banger alright!

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💊 Jones @passtheamyl.bsky.social · 3d

THIS 📌 collectivefutures.blog/the-infrastr...

The infrastructure of meaninglessness

Listen, there are two realities that we should be aware of. AI exists to make your job obsolete because the alternative is that AI makes managers obsolete. Let me try to break down this theory, which...

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 3d

Welp, here it is: maybe the funniest thing we've ever done, in its entirety.

The Onion Investigates: Jeffrey Epstein

YouTube video by The Onion

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💊 Jones @passtheamyl.bsky.social · 3d

It’s Friday in the southern hemisphere, so let’s go: that 1.5 is for the soundtrack / that happened / still divine / Chuck Russell’s masterpiece #lastfourwatched @letterboxd.social #filmsky

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💊 Jones @passtheamyl.bsky.social · 3d

Can’t think of a better deal than saving forty bucks while you strip all the AI junk out of CC, @adobe.com. Cheers!

💊 Jones @passtheamyl.bsky.social · 3d

The corporeal embodiment of Palantir as a greasy, sex pest cultist?

Checks out. #filmsky

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Danny K @dannykpolitics.bsky.social · 7d

WATCH: ‘Portland Frog’ pepper balled by ICE agents

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💊 Jones @passtheamyl.bsky.social · 4d

Just going to pin this as my #lastfourwatched eternally. @letterboxd.social #filmsky

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metal dot txt @metaltxt.bsky.social · 6d

I’m gonna say something that will annoy both my prog rock fan friends and my canadian friends, but I don’t think that Rush should legally be allowed to have a hot drummer

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Nick Feik @nickfeik.bsky.social · 9d

What an incredible act of cowardice by the National Press Club.
WTF.

The National Press Club of Australia, caving to the Israeli lobby, Cancels My Talk on Our Betrayal of Palestinian Journalists

The National Press Club of Australia cancelled my talk on how the media, by amplifying Israeli lies, have betrayed Palestinian journalists, 278 of whom have been assassinated by Israel.

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Flaming Hydra @flaminghydra.com · 9d

TODAY: @davidjroth.bsky.social on addressing existential malaise by watching a string of ‘70s movies. “The blocks around Times Square were caked in a damp neon film, but I could still identify what has since become a Shake Shack.” flaminghydra.com/winning-isnt...

Winning Isn’t Everything

It will be clear that I am not offering a self-care tip by the time you finish reading this sentence, but when things started getting dark for me around the beginning of this year I started watching m...

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Matt Zoller Seitz @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social · 9d

I've thought a lot about the scene in A Clockwork Orange where Alex finds out that the droogs he used to rampage with are now policemen

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RanTLaw @rantlaw.bsky.social · 11d

Nick has adopted the ideology and dress sense of his fellow Caulfield Grammarians.
Even if he played his new stuff, seeing him perform, dressed like this, would feel like late night on a law firm retreat.
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Nick Cave says he is "neither on the left nor on the right" and "finding both sides indefensible and unrecognisable"

Nick Cave has shared insight on his political outlook, and said that he is "neither on the left nor on the right” as he finds both sides “unrecognisable”.

www.nme.com

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💊 Jones @passtheamyl.bsky.social · 12d

The psychotic war-mongering rhetorical power of today’s Bourbon Two-step address.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 12d

Hegseth: "A few months ago I was at the White House when President Trump announced his liberation day for America's trade policy. It was a landmark day. Well, today is another liberation day. The liberation of America's warriors ... you kill people and break things for a living."

💊 Jones @passtheamyl.bsky.social · 13d

would watch a double bill of this and Eddington on a loop for a fortnight